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Students for Syrians. Transgender accommodation.

Concordia in the news
Posted on March 22, 2016

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

University affairs

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

  • Concordia's initiative to help bring five Syrian refugees to Montreal to attend the university is mentioned in a CBC.ca report about an English-language tutoring service for Syrian refugees being offered by a group of McGill students, via Skype. The report is reprised by Yahoo! News and MSN News.
  • Lapresse.ca, reporting on efforts by the Commission Scolaire de MontrĂ©al to accommodate transgender students, mentions that Concordia and McGill have designated numerous non-gender washrooms on their campuses and allow their students to change their names in university records to non-gender designations.